They are doing this for ADVERTISING DOLLARS. If they open up a site in a separate frame, and still have their site "up" in the other frame, they can show an ad (which they are doing). This is kinda dirty, not sure if its legal or not. Maybe unethical?
eastbay wrote:
They are doing this for ADVERTISING DOLLARS. If they open up a site in a separate frame, and still have their site "up" in the other frame, they can show an ad (which they are doing). This is kinda dirty, not sure if its legal or not. Maybe unethical?
I see what you mean about frames perhaps being unethical. There are may ways to 'steal content'. Are links also unethical ? This is not stealing the story, but it is theft of the headline and the URL. I know there are many sites which don't allow this by blocking links to pages. How about references to images, is that unethical. Many websites block image references.
What about the reorganization of other correspondents reports. This is the most common so-called "theft", where a reporter will rewrite a story in his or her's "own way" omitting certain information and adding other anecdotes, the bulk of the story lifted material. Correpondents do this in the press rooms at meets, in the office, at home, or at Starbucks. As mentioned in earlier posts, this is the practice of letsrun.com, trackandfieldnews.com, americantrackandfield.com, runningnetwork.com, trackshark.com and thousands of other generic, vanilla aficionado web sites. But it is also the practice of the A.P., Reuters, A.F.P., etc. Correspondents can't create content out of thin air, and can't be at every press conference and meet. Thus they report "AS IF" they are actually there, when they actually are in their office. As we have seen, reporters are seldom there, and re-write material, adding there own twist. Welcome to the world of journalism.
That's why I didn't pick Journalism as a major. The money sucks. Al you do is copy material and hack up it as if it's yours.
I just looked at this site for the first time, and I must say it is \"enlightening\" to me to see that people on here are just as rude and snippy to each other as the posters of the \"ultra list\" are to each other there.
Yaaddayaddayadda--go for a run, and mellow out.
Oh, wait, we runners are supposed to be jerks like the people who can\'t stand us, right?
Robin Fry
Heron, Montana
Montana
you have no idea what you are getting yourself into to???
Actually, that's not true. The money sure sucks, but being a journalist means tons of research and hours spent talking to people before actually writing. I've never taken anybody else's stuff and "hacked it up" as if it was mine.
I just filed a copyright claim with google. Every few months I'm reminded of this guy.
Today it was a banner on rrm.com that was for marathon guide.com that says: "The web's most visited site for distance running information"
Not sure how he can claim this but in terms of alexa traffic its not even close to true.
But regardless, I tried emailing them again today in addition to filing the copyright infringement notice with google. I also notified the NYTimes. I'll let you know if I hear anything back. I'm hoping google just removes both his sites from its index.
In case you're just jumping to the end of the thread. Here are examples:
http://www.live2run.com/MarathonGuide/news/stories/200_040213_1.html
and
http://www.live2run.com/MarathonGuide/news/stories/Odd_031205_1.html
A third grader would know better than to do that. I wouldn't care except it can cause my site to be penalized in google and marathonguide.com is presenting itself as a reputable business in the industry.
Good going. However using Alexa as a metric is bogus. You can get free tools to tweak Alexa stats by installing the Alexa toolbar on key sites geographically around the internet.